Olmstedian Scajaquada: Scajaquada Fens

A famous anecdote of Olmsted’s selection of the site of Buffalo’s principal park is related in Dr. Frank Kowsky’s indispensable book on Olmsted in Western New York. On a tour of potential park sites, when Olmsted glimpsed what is now The Meadow in Delaware Park he said, “Here is your park almost ready-made.” Despite Olmsted’s reputation as a designer of landscapes, he also had a reputation for leaving alone what already worked.

Historic Scajaquada Drive Alone

That may explain why Olmsted, other than using Scajaquada Creek to create a lake in Delaware Park, largely left the creek alone. Nearby, he also designed the grounds of the State Asylum for the Insane, in collaboration with the designer of the buildings, H. H. Richardson, which originally included a working farm extending all the way north to the creek, where Buffalo State College is today. Yet west of Elmwood Avenue, his design did nothing with the creek. Years later, an updated plan for The Park did put a Scajaquada Drive along the south bank of the creek between Elmwood and Grant, as mentioned earlier in the series. Other than that, the creek was left alone. Why?

The answer, I think, is because that section of the creek already functioned as a natural, scenic, and recreational resource, and hadn’t yet been devastated by all manner of ills the later 20th Century would impose on it. At the time it worked, which was perhaps why park designers saw no need to enhance it. Just after the Civil War, when Buffalo’s parks were being planned, there was little development around the creek. The hardscape, sewer overflows, pollution, encroachments, and channelization that afflict its watershed today were unimagined. Upstream, on Buffalo’s East Side, the creek meandered through a floodplain. It had not yet been converted to the underground Scajaquada Drain, which now channelizes floodwaters into the lower creek, as we saw this year.

But in the 20th Century, sprawling towns upstream discharging waste into the creek, and industries discharging a spectrum of pollutants created the kinds of effects that Environmental Reporter Dan Telvock of Investigative Post has described in reports like “The Scajaquada Is a Crippled Creek.” Conditions got so bad they necessitated the creation of a separate tunnel to bypass Hoyt Lake. (I recently learned that locals call the island at the mouth of that bypass “Poop Island,” or “West Cheektowaga.”) All of those impacts combined to devastate the lower creek. And they were only made worse by the construction of the 198, which turned the creek between Elmwood Avenue and Grant Street into a storm sewer.

Clearly, removing the expressway from Scajaquada Creek is necessary – but not sufficient. But since Olmsted and his successors found no need to do anything with the creek downstream from Delaware Park other than put a drive alongside, they left us with no local historic precedent to draw on. They had the luxury of leaving the creek alone, but we don’t. It needs an extreme environmental makeover. Between Elmwood and Grant – just downstream of the mouth of the Hoyt Lake bypass tunnel and just upstream of the proposed recreational lake – the creek needs to be restored in a way that allows it to help itself clean itself. Part sponge to help soak up floodwaters, and part filter. And restored with more in-water and near-water habitat than it had originally, to help make up for what the watershed has lost. What would that look like?

Like the previous installment in this series, we can look to Boston’s Emerald Necklace. There, Olmsted created one of its most beloved features by restoring to health a crippled creek.

Back Bay Fens

In the 1870s, in rapidly expanding Boston, many of the afflictions that plagued Scajaquada Creek in the 20th century had already devastated that city’s Muddy River. Boston turned to Olmsted for help, and what Olmsted did there provides important lessons for how to address our creek – if we can remove the expressway.

The resulting Back Bay Fens and Riverway are perhaps the most noted links in Olmsted’s famous Emerald Necklace. Less a park than a landscape, the Fens are a combined natural and man-made system for managing sewage and stormwater. In fact, Olmsted wouldn’t let Boston call the project a “park,” so he hit upon the name “Fens,” an ancient term for marshlands. The project also provided an opportunity to do stream restoration that Olmsted and Vaux had wanted to do other places, but couldn’t.

Although the Fens seem utterly natural, that is an illusion, not unlike the illusion that Central Park preserved part of the pre-civilization landscape of Manhattan. They are an entirely built landscape. Below ground, the Fens also incorporates a large bypass conduit that also played an important role in cleaning up the river. In modern terms, we would call it a mix of green infrastructure and greywater infrastructure. And as much as organizations in Buffalo like Waterkeeper want to shift that green-grey mix toward green infrastructure, the lesson for the western Scajaquada corridor may be that removing the expressway creates an opportunity to install conduits that would contribute to the cleaning up of the lower creek.

Olmstedian island

Yet despite the project’s substantial engineering component, Olmsted wanted the Fens to look natural, with a natural riparian edge. According to Charles Beveridge, the great Olmsted scholar,

In order to create a soft, vegetated edge…he had to solve two problems: how to provide adequate space to hold floodwaters and still have room left for natural growth, and how to protect a natural shoreline from erosion by surf during storms. His solution was to make gradually shelving banks and to construct wide islands only slightly above the usual water level. These would be planted with high-growing cattails, sedge, and other marsh vegetation.

This created a lush landscape that was rich ecologically, visually, and recreationally. Such a landscape would provide ecosystem services such as cleaning water, and also several kinds of in-water and near-water habitat. It would be a kind of paradise for exploring by canoe and kayak. On the land side, despite being an extensively natural landscape, the Fens also incorporate paths, drives, and bridges (more about those below).

Canoe on Muddy River

Scajaquada Fens

As amazing and famous as Olmsted’s Back Bay Fens are, perhaps the most astounding thing about them is that they accomplish their multiple missions – scenic, recreational, ecological, and sanitary – in such a small space. From side to side, the section of the Muddy River valley where the Fens are located is only about 500 feet across.

Here in Buffalo, if the 198 were removed between Elmwood Avenue and Grant Street, along with some other landfill that has been added over the years, the valley of Scajaquada Creek would be about the same width across. Remarkably, in terms of length, the distance along the creek between Elmwood and Grant is also about the same as the segment of the Muddy River valley occupied by the Boston Fens.

Removing the expressway between Elmwood and Grant, then, would allow for the Scajaquada Creek valley to be converted into a kind of Scajaquada Fens, with a unique design but many of the characteristics and design features that have made Boston’s Fens the iconic landscape in that city’s Emerald Necklace.

Scajaquada Creek from the Elmwood Bridge, historic image.

This would be very different from restoring the creek to its original width as open water. While that would be a reasonable design decision, as you can see from a historic image, that would also create little visual interest, and also less riparian edge. The riparian edge and shallows and wetlands are among the most productive habitats, especially for fish, many types of birds, small mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.

So restoring the creek between Elmwood and Grant, like for the section west of Grant discussed in the previous installment, would come down to a question of: green or blue? Water or greenery? West of Grant I came down on the side of blue. So here, why do I come down on the side of green?

Primarily, because creating a Scajaquada Fens would maximize the contribution of that section of the creek to remediating the water quality issues that have impacted the creek in recent decades, issues that didn’t exist a century ago but are now acute. It would also maximize the contribution of that section in creating new habitat to offset habitat that has been lost along the creek and throughout the city. It would also maximize the visual appeal and recreational offerings there.

Its twists and turns and lush vegetation would also create a paradise for slow-paced canoeing and kayaking. Because of the low bridges near its mouth, and the finger dam, Scajaquada Creek is currently not used by motorized boats, and that should remain true. The Fens would also create a critical buffer zone between the new recreational lake proposed in the previous installment – which could have intensive uses such as rowing and sailing – and the picturesque Hoyt Lake.

Olmsted’s Fens, designed to provide flood control and water quality services, were an early recognition that nature can provide services of value. Today, we might categorize the Fens as a kind of “green infrastructure.” But it is important to note that not all of it was green: Olmsted built sewers alongside the Fens. In the same way, although Waterkeeper and their partners in improving the Scajaquada watershed rightly emphasize green infrastructure solutions, the removal of the expressway might create the opportunity to upgrade the sewer and stormwater infrastructure along the creek. Eliminating some or all of the half-dozen or so CSOs (combined sewer overflows) along the western section, along with green infrastructure like the Fens and – of course – improvements upstream in the suburban towns would drastically improve water quality in the lower creek.

Yet the Scajaquada Fens would be not just a creek restoration, or even just an extension of Delaware Park westward, but nothing less than the creation of the first new Olmstedian landscape in Buffalo in over a century.

The master of paradox, G. K. Chesterton, once said, “Fens, like deserts, are large things very apt to be mislaid.” In a way that is true of Olmsted’s Fens which, like other elements of the Emerald Necklace, have been severely encroached on since their creation, as if their original intent was mislaid. What that means for Buffalo is that we could create a Fens that are more Olmstedian than the Back Bay Fens are today – at the very least, richer and more natural.

We could and we should.

Waterfront Campus

College on Back Bay Fens

An interesting historic footnote about Olmsted’s Fens is that he expected they would attract residential development, like the Back Bay neighborhood. What happened instead is that the location became a magnet for educational and cultural institutions, a couple dozen in all. In that respect, the western Scajaquada corridor in Buffalo, with three colleges and a collection of culturals, is similar.

Removing the expressway between Elmwood Avenue and Grant Street would involve converting Iroquois Drive into Scajaquada Drive. As I described earlier in the series, if the traffic that currently enters the 198 from the 190 were to be dispersed into the street grid available nearby, a two-lane Scajaquada Drive should be able to handle what’s left. Importantly, using Scajaquada Drive, college-bound traffic would be able to access the campus directly, rather than having to exit onto Elmwood or Grant first, which creates congestion on those streets (as I also described in that earlier installment).

Redundant asphalt

Currently, Iroquois Drive functions as a service road, for campus service vehicles and as alternate access to some campus parking lots. The service road and the expressway together form an unbreakable cordon of redundant strips of asphalt that both hide the creek and keep away anyone who might notice it. Recently, I walked along Iroquois Drive during afternoon rush hour, and found almost no traffic on it, and surprisingly little traffic on the adjacent expressway. It was astonishing to see such a waste not only financially, but of a natural resource. This ugliness has caused the college to turn its back on the creek, and see the creek, to the extent anyone is aware of it at all, as the backside of campus.

The northnern edge of campus could look our onto a lush Olmstedian landscape rather than a barren asphalt wasteland

What a contrast to Boston, where educational and cultural institutions proudly cluster around the Fens and other nearby links in the Emerald Necklace. With the expressway removed and the creek transformed into a rich natural and recreational asset, Buffalo State College could similarly be a waterfront campus. It would not only boost the quality of campus life, but also be a selling point to prospective students and faculty. With the restored creek, and a lake on either end of Rockwell Road, the college would have scenic and recreational water on three sides.

With the restored creek, and a lake on either end of Rockwell Road, the college would have scenic and recreational water on three sides.

On top of that, with the Richardson-Olmsted Complex bordering the campus to the south, Buffalo State College could boast of being the only college or university to be surrounded on all sides by Olmstedian landscapes. That might inspire the college to boost the quality of the campus landscape itself, or even offer a degree in landscape architecture, something you cannot currently get at any Buffalo school.

A West Side Highway grade crossing

How would folks cross Scajaquada Drive between campus and the Fens? In Boston, there are striped crossings with “Yield to Pedestrians” signs across the Fenway, the drive that runs alongside the Fens, between the institutions one one side and the Fens on the other. That seems to work in part because the park-like landscape there, with well-used paths on either side, serves as a kind of traffic calming. In lower Manhattan, city denizens wanting to visit Hudson River Park cross the West Side Highway at signalized grade crossings. One of those two approaches, or a combination, should work.

Making Buffalo State a waterfront campus would forever change the idea of the northern side of campus being the ‘backside.’

Making Buffalo State a waterfront campus would forever change the idea of the northern side of campus being the “backside.” A more northerly orientation would benefit Black Rock by potentially adding a “collegetown” flavor. But only if gown and town can mix. And that can only happen if people can connect across this new landscape between the waterfront neighborhood and the waterfront campus.

Crossing Over

A hallmark of Olmsted’s design for the Boston Fens is multiple levels, from street level where the drives – the Fenway and the Riverway – run alongside, down to water level, with some terraces levels in between. Aside from their primary flood control purpose, the various levels create an ideal setting for a curving set of paths following the contours and nooks and crannies of the landscape. Some of the best photos showing this are by Charles Birnbaum of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, who is no stranger to Buffalo.

The twisting watercourses and levels also necessitated a variety of bridges that are a signature of the Fens. As in Central and Prospect Parks, they are a beloved and often-photographed feature. Olmstedian bridges, at a variety of levels and faced with local limestone, could also become a hallmark of a Scajaquada Fens.

On some of the bridges, Olmsted had help from his friend and Brookline neighbor, architect H.H. Richardson. Of course, one of the first collaborations between those two legendary designers was just south of Scajaquada Creek in Buffalo: the Richardson-Olmsted Complex. The bridges they created for the Fens featured the rustic boulder construction also found in other collaborations between the two men, such as for the Ames family in North Easton, Massachusetts. One of those bridges, the Agassiz Bridge, is pictured here.

Agassiz bridge

Because lower-level bridges would only need to let canoes and kayaks under, they could be designed with multiple arches like the Agassiz Bridge. Or, if over a small water channel, they could be a single arch like this one:

Single-span low-level arch

Larger bridges could also link paths at a higher level, perhaps even an auto road crossing from rim to rim. This is what the Longfellow Bridge (pictured) does in Boston. It’s single span is long enough for a water channel and water-level footpaths to run underneath.

Longfellow Bridge

In creating a Scajaquada Fens there is at least one spot where a bridge would need to go entirely across the landscape from rim to rim: Nottingham Terrace. As discussed in an earlier installment, as a critical east-west link in the street grid of the western 198 corridor, it would still need to connect with the Scajaquada Drive that replaces the Scajaquada Expressway. In spots where road bridges needed to entirely cross the Back Bay Fens, Olmsted designed the bending watercourse to line up so that the crossing road would be mostly on land with only a short span over water. That could be the case for Nottingham Terrace.

There are a couple of other spots where crossings of the Fens might be warranted.

A New Black Rock Greenway

One location that may merit a crossing is where the former industrial rail spur crossed the creek. It crossed on a trestle near the location of the present finger dam. A crossing at that location would create the opportunity for a greenway along the rail spur linking the Scajaquada Corridor with Amherst Street retail, Black Rock neighborhood streets, and the new adaptive reuse projects on Grote Street and along the Belt Line.

New Black Rock Greenway

As you can see from the diagram, a greenway along the rail spur would pass through the intersection of Amherst Street and Bridgeman Street by the entrance to Wegmans, one of the most important nodes on the street. Just north of Amherst Street, a group home was built on a section of the former railroad right-of-way. Perhaps with some relocation assistance, its important mission could be accommodated somewhere else nearby, perhaps as part of one of the adaptive reuse projects currently underway.

Along this greenway, the great old brick industrial building at 1 Howell Street would suddenly find itself as essentially waterfront property, with great adaptive reuse potential. Recreational users of the creek corridor might want to use the greenway to meander up to Amherst Street to grab a bite to eat or have an ice cream, boosting the commercial strip.

One Howell Street

Since the ownership of the former railbed is apparently broken up, putting it back together for a greenway would take some effort, that would probably be most effective with Black Rock stakeholders in the lead. But it would be a valuable community asset and recreational connection between the neighborhood and the Scajaquada corridor.

A crossing for this greenway could also address issues with the present finger dam. Presumably the creek restoration would involve removal, reconfiguration, or replacement of the finger dam. At the very least, there needs to be a canoe carry around it. Perhaps whatever needs to be done with the finger dam could be incorporated into the bridge carrying this greenway across the Fens.

Wegmans Village?

The Western Scajaquada Corridor plan unveiled last year includes proposed auto bridges over the creek from south to north in the vicinity of Buffalo State College. The rationale was to try to establish mid-block connections between the school and Amherst Street, to create the kind of additional route options associated with a street grid that are not currently present there. While I’m not convinced that’s necessary, one thing I do feel strongly about is that extending any of the Black Rock residential streets south across the creek is a bad idea. Those short, dead-end streets are currently used by neighborhood children as play areas. Occasionally, a block resident will drive down the street, very slowly, and the children will stand aside. Turning such a street into a through-street would be a disservice to the residents, and shouldn’t be done unless absolutely necessary.

…it could even lead to the creation of a ‘Wegmans Village.’

That said, if it proves desirable to have such a through street, perhaps the single best option would be to extend Bridgeman Street south. That would not only create a direct connection to Wegmans, it could even lead to the creation of a “Wegmans Village.” Essentially, the Wegmans property could be improved into a kind of mini “lifestyle center,” with a walkable and landscaped internal street grid with storefronts facing those streets. The diagram below shows one possible configuration, including additional infill to fill the gaps along Amherst Street.

It would be important to include businesses that aren’t already found in the neighborhood or not likely to locate on a traditional urban commercial street. The idea would be to create something not to compete with existing businesses nearby, but serve as a destination and magnet drawing more and different types of shoppers to the neighborhood. Then, with improved landscape, streetscape, and recreational connectivity, encourage those shoppers to linger and explore what the entire neighborhood has to offer.

Wegmans Village

This would also be about creating a sense of place around the Amherst-Bridgeman intersection, to build it into something more than just “that light where you turn in to Wegmans.” It could also create bicycle and pedestrian connections into the surrounding neighborhood, and to the new Black Rock Greenway and the Scajaquada (Jesse Kregal) Pathway.

To create something like this, Wegmans would have to display a level cooperation with the community that was lacking in the planning of the liquor store on the premises. It would also take a level of commitment to urbanism that has been lacking in their projects, even in cities. But the creation of the Fens, the new greenway, and a bridge linking the store directly to Buffalo State would add enough to the potential of the site to perhaps get Wegmans willing to think outside of the big box – perhaps even including some structured parking, underground parking, and even mixed use with residential upstairs needed to make it work.

With underground parking, the current parking lot could become a ‘village square.’

With underground parking, the current parking lot could become a “village square.” The example of that I’ve shown in the diagram includes a shallow water feature that could be fed by solar-powered pumps with water from the creek that then could flow back into the creek and Fens via a picturesque stream and ravine that could perhaps even re-enter the creek at a small waterfall. The water feature could be used for ice skating in the winter – something that would be enjoyed by the entire neighborhood.

Earlier, it was mentioned that making Buffalo State a more northward oriented campus could benefit Black Rock if people could easily cross back and forth. A Bridgeman Street crossing would be a key town-gown connection between the waterfront campus and the waterfront neighborhood.

McKinley High School horticulture students learning about the new landscape being created at their school as part of the Joint Schools Reconstruction Project. Image credit: Joy Kuebler, Landscape Architecture

Finally, nestled up against Scajaquada Creek along Elmwood Avenue is McKinley High School, home to one of the only horticulture and landscape programs in Western New York. The Scajaquada Fens would provide the program with a living laboratory at their back door. The students could not only contribute to the planting and maintenance of the Fens, but could gain hands-on experience with creek restoration, habitat types, invasive species management, and landscape aesthetics. Some might be inspired to consider careers in landscape architecture and ecology.

Creating the Scajaquada Fens would not only be about restoring a creek and creating a beautiful natural landscape, but also about inspiring a generation of young Buffalonians to dedicate themselves to protecting and enhancing the landscape and ecology of Our Fair City – and world.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

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Event Details

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

more

Event Details

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

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NEW YORKER MAGAZINE
DISCUSSION GROUP
An informal gathering
of people interested in
discussing the articles,
poetry, fiction, reviews and
cartoons found weekly in the
New Yorker.
Facilitators: Sheila Shapiro &
Arlene Burrows
January 8 - March 26
Tuesdays 10:30am-12:30pm
class#20083
Full/Social Member

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NEW YORKER MAGAZINE
DISCUSSION GROUP
An informal gathering
of people interested in
discussing the articles,
poetry, fiction, reviews and
cartoons found weekly in the
New Yorker.
Facilitators: Sheila Shapiro &
Arlene Burrows
January 8 – March 26
Tuesdays 10:30am-12:30pm
class#20083
Full/Social Member Gym/CP
$22 $30

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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THE HEALING POWER OF SOUND
Description:
Even though the history of sound healing goes back to ancient times, experiencing Sonic Reiki for the first time feels like it is out of this

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THE HEALING POWER OF SOUND
Description:
Even though the history of sound healing goes back to ancient times, experiencing Sonic Reiki for the first time feels like it is out of this world and yet so comforting. The most basic Universal law is that Everything is Vibration. When you understand this law, you are given the tools to help change the world for the better – both for your own health and the health of the world; and to be able to better resonate with aspects of nature, Spirit and the Universe.

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Join Swing Buffalo at the Polish Cadets Hall on Tuesday, January 22 for a special night of dancing as we celebrate our anniversary!
Your feet are in for treat, The

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Join Swing Buffalo at the Polish Cadets Hall on Tuesday, January 22 for a special night of dancing as we celebrate our anniversary!

Your feet are in for treat, The Vintage Jazz Collective will be in from Rochester to serenade us! Don’t know how to dance? Don’t worry, we kick the night off with a drop-in lesson at 7:45 that’ll get your toes tapping!

Admission is $10
7:45 – drop in lesson
8:30 – live music

About The Vintage Jazz Collective
Catering to the Lindy Hop, Blues, and Balboa dance communities, the Vintage Jazz Collective brings to light rare collections of swing music straight from the jazz era. Each tour they perform hand-selected favorites from a different collection curated by a band leader of the swing era.

For 2018-19, our small jazz ensemble will be debuting the collection of George Manning. Many of Manning’s charts are original arrangements that have been out of print for over 80 years!

George Manning was a Rochester-based band leader, and his vast collection of charts was donated to the Eastman School of Music a decade ago. It consists of eleven boxes of musical arrangements, direct from the largest swing music publishing companies of the swing era.

For the 2018-19 touring season, the Vintage Jazz Collective has selected the most danceable arrangements from the collection to perform for you! Hidden in this archive of early swing music, we’ve unearthed some gems that showcase the breadth of the musical repertoire and the evolution of swing music as we know it.

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or 11:30am to 12:30pm on Wednesdays for only $1 more than the price of admission. Advance registration is required, call 655-5131 ext. 14. Theme of the week: Moving My Body

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

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Looking to find a job or change careers? Visit the Central library and meet employers looking to hire and discover free resources that will make your search faster and easier.

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Looking to find a job or change careers? Visit the Central library and meet employers looking to hire and discover free resources that will make your search faster and easier. Free and open to the public.

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or 11:30am to 12:30pm on Wednesdays for only $1 more than the price of admission. Advance registration is required, call 655-5131 ext. 14. Theme of the week: Moving My Body

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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Come on out and enjoy an evening of some of the best local gypsy jazz inspired music to celebrate Django Reinhardt’s 108th Birthday. Django Reinhardt (1910 – 1953) is the

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Come on out and enjoy an evening of some of the best local gypsy jazz inspired music to celebrate Django Reinhardt’s 108th Birthday. Django Reinhardt (1910 – 1953) is the originator of what we commonly call gypsy jazz. He is admired by jazz guitarists all over the world. He founded with violinist Stéphane Grappelli the Quintette du Hot Club de France and this quintet has inspired countless modern groups such as Stéphane Wrembel’s Django Experiment, the Rhythm Future Quartet, the Rosenberg Trio, Bireli Lagrène’s Gypsy Project and so many more. Django was also a prolific composer. Some of his most famous tunes are Nuages, Minor Swing, Troublant Boléro and Anouman.

The five featured groups will be Carina and the Six String Preacher (Carina Mastrantonio, vocals, Vincent Mastrantonio, guitar, Eric Beimiller, drums), the Hot Club of Buffalo (Dean Gionis, guitar, Josh Assad, guitar, E.J. Koeppel, violin, Kevin McCarthy, bass), Green Schwinn (John Blake, vocals, Andy Othman, guitar), Tyler Westcott and Friends (Tyler Westcott, guitar, Sean McNamara, guitar, Pat Jackson, bass), French ConéXion (Jeremy Spindler, accordion, Marc Cousins, bass, Bernard Kunz, guitar).
Each group will play a half hour set between 5:30 and 8:30 and another one between 8:30 and 11:30. The last half hour will be a jam. So, if you get there late or have to leave early, you’ll still get to see all 5 groups. Admission is $10.00 cash at the door.

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This course runs on Wednesdays from Jan. 23 through May 8. Students will develop sensory skills and learn terminology typically used in the alcohol beverage industry. The Blichmann TopTier Modular

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This course runs on Wednesdays from Jan. 23 through May 8. Students will develop sensory skills and learn terminology typically used in the alcohol beverage industry. The Blichmann TopTier Modular Brewing system and professional grade fermentation equipment will be utilized in the College’s brewing lab.

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BULLYING AND PROMOTING WELL-BEING FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES – 1/23
January 23, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
YOU WILL LEARN
About the different types of bullying
To recognizing the warning signs
How to

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BULLYING AND PROMOTING WELL-BEING FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES – 1/23
January 23, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
YOU WILL LEARN
About the different types of bullying
To recognizing the warning signs
How to add supports into an IEP
LOCATION
Parent Network WNY
1000 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY
email: info@parentnetworkwny.org | call: 716.332.4170
Please let us know if you need assistance with childcare or transportation when you register.
Follow the link for more info and to register:

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Join MK Rowland for this new monthly circle at Santosha. While drinking tea, you will learn how to read Tarot cards, learn about the history of the cards, and learn

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Join MK Rowland for this new monthly circle at Santosha. While drinking tea, you will learn how to read Tarot cards, learn about the history of the cards, and learn the basics. You will learn to give Tarot readings to yourself and to others.
$20

Register by calling or texting 716-930-5011 or e mail grangie26@yahoo.com

Funktional Flow: Hailing from Buffalo, NY, Funktional Flow is a multi-genre quintet heavily rooted in rock and reggae, with a funk foundation. Over the past six years, the band has released three albums and played hundreds of shows throughout the Northeast and beyond. With the release of the newest album “Time Will Tell” on March 5th 2016, Flow is poised to take it to the next level and branch out nationally. Flow is heavily influenced by Sublime, Umphreys McGee, Moe, and Blind Melon but maintains a fresh, high energy sound that results in a diverse catalog of music.

Since the bands establishment in 2010, Funktional Flow has played notable music festivals such as Catskill Chill, The Great Blue Heron, A Bears Picnic, Buffalove Music Festival and Night Lights Music Festival. They also host their own festival, “Flow Fest”, at Woodlawn Beach located on the shores of Lake Erie, just outside of Buffalo, NY. Funktional Flow has shared the stage with many notable acts including; Warren Haynes, Railroad Earth, Rusted Root, New Riders of the Purple Sage and members of Little Feat. The Flow has succeeded in making a name for themselves throughout the North East and beyond; continuously earning recognition from musical publications. Recently the band was voted “Best Original Alternative Band” in Western New York. Also featured in Relix magazine’s “On the Rise” section and was a previous winner of the coveted Artvoice “Best of Buffalo” award. Dubbed a multi-genre monster, Funktional Flow is best experienced in its natural state, a live performance.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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We are all born with a connection to our intuition. Join Angie Hewett-Abt & learn to “remember what you already know.”
We will meet the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each

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We are all born with a connection to our intuition. Join Angie Hewett-Abt & learn to “remember what you already know.”
We will meet the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month
1/24, 2/14, 2/28, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11, 4/25

In this 7 week bi- weekly series you will learn:
– how to connect to & stay connected to your Intuitive side if your brain.
– learn about the ways Spirit gives us messages. Clairvoyance- clear seeing, Clairaudience – clear hearing & Clairscentience – clear feeling
– why it’s important to develop your intuition & use it in your daily life
– how to receive & give Intuitive messages to others
– how to communicate with your spirit guides
– how to communicate with loved ones on the other side.
– Psychometry & Personal billets
– how to give yourself a reading. Future, Past Life, & more

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HELPING YOUR CHILD HANDLE ANXIETY & STRESS BOTH IN & OUT OF SCHOOL
January 24 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Come join us for an informative evening.
Presenter: Kimberly Morrow, therapist and

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HELPING YOUR CHILD HANDLE ANXIETY & STRESS BOTH IN & OUT OF SCHOOL
January 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Come join us for an informative evening.
Presenter: Kimberly Morrow, therapist and anxiety expert. This workshop will provide strategies that can empower children and parents to deal with anxiety and stress, and will teach parents ways to help your child deal with daily life stressors.
January 24, 2019 at the William Street School, 5201 William Street, Lancaster, NY 14086
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Sponsored by: Lancaster Family Support Center, Mental Health Advocates of WNY, and Parent Network of WNY
Questions? Call 716-332-4170 or info@parentnetworkwny.org

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Thursday, January 24th – Psymbionic w/ special guests Criminal Sound

-Doors: 8:00pm, show: 9:00pm
-Tickets: $12 ADV/$15 DOS
-Ages: 18

About Psymbionic:
Cresting the modern wave of electronic producers, Psymbionic creates aural experiences that explore the range of multi-tempo Bass Music within an influential and dynamic culture. With an ear for situational relevance, Psymbionic enjoys turning non-traditional sound design and infectious rhythms into dancefloor heat, while also maintaining his history in the downtempo, emotive side of the electronic sound.

John Burcham has been moving bodies and turning heads as Psymbionic for several years in all corners of the USA, playing with acts such as Bassnectar, STS9, Big Gigantic, ill.Gates, Excision, EOTO, and Tipper. His passion and innovation in the music world are showcased through album releases on Muti Music and MalLabel, as well as in his role as label manager for the popular Electronic imprint Gravitas Recordings.

In a live show context, Psymbionic confronts mixes that are limited to the scope of the build and release, avoiding an industry epidemic of drop-monotony that overpowers the flow of music. Burcham seeks to prove that there are more powerful influences in moving a crowd than simple tension, providing an interwoven dynamic that relies on the strength of his blend, rather than the sole force or familiarity of the apex.

Psymbionic’s theory of music is a journey that doesn’t visit the same place twice, building excitement for what’s next not because you can anticipate it, but because you’ve never been there before.

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American Repertory Theater of WNY Presents HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
Scheduled to get the 2018-19 season off to explosive start is the local premier of the musical based on the 1988 cult-classic

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American Repertory Theater of WNY Presents HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL

Scheduled to get the 2018-19 season off to explosive start is the local premier of the musical based on the 1988 cult-classic film, HEATHERS. In her Artistic Director inaugural season and making her debut as a director for ART/WNY, Candice Kogut will oversee this compelling and timely piece of American musical theater.

With music, lyrics, and a book by Laurence O’Keefe ( of BATBOY and LEGALLY BLONDE score fame) and Kevin Murphy (lyrics and co-wrote the book for REEFER MADNESS), the story of HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL tells the story of Westerberg High School being terrorized by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather and Heather (the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio). But when rebel with a clue Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a dark sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their rightful six-feet-under place, Westerberg High will see a new sheriff in town -once the smoke clears.

HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL opens on September 6th and runs until September 22nd. All showtimes are 8 pm. Tickets are $25/$15 Student, Military and Industry. Single ticket purchases go on sale September 1st but ART/WNY season subscriptions are now available. Visit the company’s website at Subscription Packages for more details on great prices for season tickets to an amazing theatrical year in store. To make reservations via phone please call the ART/WNY box-office at 716 983 4345 (Mon-Fri 10 am to 1 pm).

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The Lemonade Classic, presented by Northwestern Mutual, is a 4 on 4 pond hockey tournament in support of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. The mission of this foundation is to

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The Lemonade Classic, presented by Northwestern Mutual, is a 4 on 4 pond hockey tournament in support of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. The mission of this foundation is to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness , supporting families and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer. The tournament is being held at RiverWorks and is open to the public to attend for free. Whether you are registered to play or simply love watching hockey and fighting back against childhood cancer the Lemonade Classic has something for everyone. There will be food, drink, pucks and sweatshirts for sale as well as cheering for the teams who have chosen to face-off against cancer! We hope to see you there and thank you for your support.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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To start off the new year, Amigone Funeral Home, Inc. will be hosting a mobile blood drive with Unyts - Donate Life in their parking lot at the Tonawanda Chapel

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To start off the new year, Amigone Funeral Home, Inc. will be hosting a mobile blood drive with Unyts – Donate Life in their parking lot at the Tonawanda Chapel on Friday, January 25, 2019 from 1-6 PM.

Organ and blood donation is a topic that one of Amigone’s office team members is very passionate about, Rebecca Nason.

She shares: “Unyts was kind enough to select my experience as their “Share Your Story” feature to close out 2018. We hope to make a positive impact on our community, as all donations stay local. Regularly donating like me could be a great New Year’s resolution. Looking forward to hearing your stories and seeing you at the event!” Please take the time to read the article below.
http://www.unyts.org/get-involved/share-your-story/2018/it-s-a-simple,-selfless-act-of-kindness-that-can

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Come visit one of Buffalo’s must-see treasures: The Guaranty Building! Originally built in 1896, this Adler & Sullivan designed structure is a highlight of Buffalo’s downtown architecture. Come see the

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Come visit one of Buffalo’s must-see treasures: The Guaranty Building! Originally built in 1896, this Adler & Sullivan designed structure is a highlight of Buffalo’s downtown architecture. Come see the beautiful terra cotta tiles on the exterior, the incredible mosaic work on the interior, and learn the history of this building, including what makes it a great preservation story. Preservation Buffalo Niagara is the exclusive provider of tours of the Guaranty Building.

Pre-registration is required for this tour. Walks on are not permitted, due to the limited capacity on this tour. Online registrants will receive a confirmation email. If you prefer to register over the phone, please call (716) 852-3300. If you have any questions, please contact Olivia at (716) 852-3300.

Tours of the Guaranty Building are on Fridays at 2 pm and Saturdays at 11 am.

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Join us on M&T Fourth Friday January 25, 2019 for the opening of "From the Core" by Sheila Barcik; the opening reception will run from 5-8pm.
Sheila Barcik explores life, existence,

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Join us on M&T Fourth Friday January 25, 2019 for the opening of “From the Core” by Sheila Barcik; the opening reception will run from 5-8pm.

Sheila Barcik explores life, existence, and the existential experiences of searching and surviving in the contemporary world. Barcik constructs grids of single sheet drawings, each presenting a unique space in time. Together, the small works forms new images that flow from one moment to the next. The unsettling landscapes function as a cryptic schematic, populated with figurative and symbolic forms that are both familiar and foreign. Barcik invites the viewer to wander slowly through this ambivalent environment, taking time with each individual drawing as well as the full installation.

“From the Core” will be on view at Buffalo Arts Studio from January 25, 2019 – March 2, 2019.

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Join us on M&T Fourth Friday January 25, 2019 for the opening of "Amalgams" by Lee Hoag; the opening reception will run from 5-8pm, with the artist speaking about their

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Join us on M&T Fourth Friday January 25, 2019 for the opening of “Amalgams” by Lee Hoag; the opening reception will run from 5-8pm, with the artist speaking about their work promptly at 6pm.

Hoag’s work expands upon traditional ideas of assemblage sculpture. He works with collected objects to create new, unexpected forms. He chooses objects for their organic forms and couples them with language to evoke subconscious associations within the viewer. Well dosed with mystery, humor, and innuendo—both sacred and profane—Hoag’s sculptures conjure up the unimaginable within viewers. His work transforms everyday objects into charged psychic forms.

“Amalgams” will be on view at Buffalo Arts Studio from January 25, 2019 – March 2, 2019.

Collector’s Tours Saturday February 9 and Saturday February 16,12-3pm, tour starts at 1pm
Discussion with Jack Edson: First Friday March 1, 7pm
Exhibition Hours: By appointment, First Friday February 1, 6-9pm and First Friday March 1, 6-9pm

Buffalo, NY – Eleven Twenty Projects is pleased to announce a special exhibition of work from the collection of Hamburg, NY artist Jack Edson.
Contemporary art is collected for numerous reasons—investment, vanity, and posterity but at the heart of it, there is a collector and their compulsive love for the works they acquire. Some are driven by systematic interests in a museological fashion. Others follow the tangents of their heart and primarily purchase things they love, things they might—for reasons known only to them—otherwise not be able to live without.

Over time, these built collections become the invisible archives of our times. They find accrued value outside the personal collection and merit attention from a wider audience. Marked by subjective tastes and inquisitive eyes, they can become remarkable compilations of objects and images, inclusive and broadly cutting across various genres of work. Built and collected for personal reasons, they can become educational and informative about the works, their makers, and the collector whose eye brought them together.

With its prevailing interests in art, history, material culture, and the region of Western New York, Eleven Twenty Projects is initiating an annual consideration of collecting that will showcase the work of one regional collector. Presented as a concise survey—rather than omnibus compendium—A Focus On Collectors will bring to the surface the hidden gems of the region, collected over the years by passionate and driven individuals.

ABOUT JACK EDSON:
Jack Edson is a master quilter and has been collecting art and a wide variety of other objects since he started working as a librarian in 1970s. He earned his BA in English from Canisius College and his Master of Library Science from the University of Rhode Island and served as director of the Hamburg Public Library from 2005 until 2017. Over the past four decades Edson has been honing his quilting skills making detailed historical portrait quilts. Edson says, “I may be working with cloth, but I’m actually painting in my mind.” Recently, he was awarded the 2018 Margaret E. Mead Memorial award, as part of the Art in Craft Media exhibit at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and his work was included in Material Men 2: Contemporary Masters at the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum. In the March 2019 selections of Edson’s work will be featured in the exhibition Contemporary Portraiture at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

ABOUT ELEVEN TWENTY PROJECTS:
Founded in 2013, Eleven Twenty Projects is a modern and contemporary arts initiative, located on Buffalo’s Main Street adjacent to the medical campus. Eleven Twenty Projects intermixes art, history, and material culture with a diverse approach and independent vision.

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Come if you dare...but don't come alone!! Our Haunted Hayride, and phylotec have been scaring the "yell" out of unsuspecting victims for some time now . It has become a

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Come if you dare…but don’t come alone!! Our Haunted Hayride, and phylotec have been scaring the “yell” out of unsuspecting victims for some time now . It has become a Halloween tradition, so bring your friends and family, Scouts or sports groups – as many people as you can to protect you from the strange happenings and eerie encounters that go on in the Becker Farms forests after dark.

Phylotec: Biogenetic Testing Station

In our quest to bring you the best in farming technology we have been experimenting using the latest in genetic research. But something has gone wrong! When used incorrectly the very technology that can make the best tasting fruits and vegetables will create terrifying man eating monsters! Make your way through twisting passages of terror and try to survive the biogenetic disaster area that is phylotec.

Tickets include both the Haunted Hayride and Phylotec
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Single tickets are $10.00
A group rate (20 or more people) is only $9 a person

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With their unique sound mixing traditional rock structure, and complex developmental jamming, Space Junk evolves house, rock and jazz influenced improvising as the force to separate them from your typical solo based Jam band. Each show is a unique musical journey – ensuring that no two shows are the same. Their loyal fan base ties this live intelligent dance party together, sure to keep your feet moving, your blood pumping, and your brain in a frenzy.

Unofficially formed in 2009 while attending college in Fredonia, Space Junk got its name and a new home in Buffalo, NY in 2011. Joining forces with Buffalo’s Frosty Tone DJ crew, Space Junk proved that a live band could hold their own with the late night DJs and MCs. Here they established their long form improvisational development, reminiscent of their DJ influences and counterparts in Trance, DnB, Dubstep and House. Maintaining a presence amongst the DJs and Jam bands in the Allentown bar district, they continued to push the limits of their tension filled peaks. They have shared the stage with acts such as Dopapod, Particle, Dr. Fameus, Consider the Source, Kung Fu, Digital Tape Machine, Jimkata, The Heavy Pets and many more. They where awarded Best Rhythm Section at the WNY Music Awards ceremony in 2013. And in 2016 Space Junk was voted the #1 electronic band by Western New York News.

Close your eyes during one of their jams and you will see these analog musicians transform into one digital beast. Fueled by heavy delays, face-melting guitar solos, mind bending electro-funk jams, and an ambidextrous drummer/DJ/keyboardist [Yes, their drummer does all three simultaneously], Space Junk is bound to leave you stuck in orbit after seeing them live.
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About RootsCollider:

RootsCollider implements an electronica producer’s approach to writing original music by layering melodies, rhythms, and samples in the same fashion that a DJ does while composing. This methodology is a self-aware effort to super-collide multiple genres of dance music into a single unstoppable aesthetic force.

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This course takes place on Saturdays from Jan. 26 through May 11. It will include in-depth lessons on yeast and bacteria microbiology as well as water and beer chemistry. Students

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This course takes place on Saturdays from Jan. 26 through May 11. It will include in-depth lessons on yeast and bacteria microbiology as well as water and beer chemistry. Students will learn to evaluate microbes on media and microscopically, optimize chemical composition of wort and beer, and control microbial activity in ‘clean’ and sour beers. Students will gain hands-on experience with aseptic technique, chemical analysis of beer bitterness, and brewing on a professional-grade brewing and fermentation system. No prior microbiology or chemistry education is necessary.

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We are all born with a connection to our Intuition. As we go through our lives very often our intuition is put aside in favor of focusing on what we

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We are all born with a connection to our Intuition. As we go through our lives very often our intuition is put aside in favor of focusing on what we see with our physical eyes and the logical aspect of our minds. Being consciously connected to our intuitive side is completely natural and this in turn helps us live lives that are full of meaning and purpose. AND we can use our intuition to facilitate readings that can help others heal and find their true purpose.

In this workshop I am going to help you understand and trust the intuitive messages that are there for us all.

Learn how to connect to spirit guides and understand their messages
Learn how to connect with loved ones who have crossed over to the other side of life, receive evidence from them that they are indeed who they say they are, and properly understand & interpret the messages and guidance they have to offer
You will learn the basics. Spirit communicates with us using mind language. Clairvoyance or clear seeing, Clairaudience or clear hearing, and Clairscentience which is clear feeling & gut feelings. You will learn to use “The Claire’s” to get accurate messages for yourself & others using mind language.

$30.
Register at 716-930-5011

Rev. Angie Hewett-Abt, B.A., is Director of Santosha Wholistic Center in Williamsville, NY. Angie is a 2002 graduate of Fellowships of the Spirit’s School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy. She received her degree in Human Services with a concentration in Counseling and Psychology in 2005. A practicing medium for over 31 years, Angie currently has her own thriving mediumship and spiritual counseling practice located in Buffalo, NY, where she has taught meditation and intuitive development for over 22 years. www.angiespiritualreadings.com

Collector’s Tours Saturday February 9 and Saturday February 16,12-3pm, tour starts at 1pm
Discussion with Jack Edson: First Friday March 1, 7pm
Exhibition Hours: By appointment, First Friday February 1, 6-9pm and First Friday March 1, 6-9pm

Buffalo, NY – Eleven Twenty Projects is pleased to announce a special exhibition of work from the collection of Hamburg, NY artist Jack Edson.

Contemporary art is collected for numerous reasons—investment, vanity, and posterity but at the heart of it, there is a collector and their compulsive love for the works they acquire. Some are driven by systematic interests in a museological fashion. Others follow the tangents of their heart and primarily purchase things they love, things they might—for reasons known only to them—otherwise not be able to live without.

Over time, these built collections become the invisible archives of our times. They find accrued value outside the personal collection and merit attention from a wider audience. Marked by subjective tastes and inquisitive eyes, they can become remarkable compilations of objects and images, inclusive and broadly cutting across various genres of work. Built and collected for personal reasons, they can become educational and informative about the works, their makers, and the collector whose eye brought them together.

With its prevailing interests in art, history, material culture, and the region of Western New York, Eleven Twenty Projects is initiating an annual consideration of collecting that will showcase the work of one regional collector. Presented as a concise survey—rather than omnibus compendium—A Focus On Collectors will bring to the surface the hidden gems of the region, collected over the years by passionate and driven individuals.

ABOUT JACK EDSON:
Jack Edson is a master quilter and has been collecting art and a wide variety of other objects since he started working as a librarian in 1970s. He earned his BA in English from Canisius College and his Master of Library Science from the University of Rhode Island and served as director of the Hamburg Public Library from 2005 until 2017. Over the past four decades Edson has been honing his quilting skills making detailed historical portrait quilts. Edson says, “I may be working with cloth, but I’m actually painting in my mind.” Recently, he was awarded the 2018 Margaret E. Mead Memorial award, as part of the Art in Craft Media exhibit at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and his work was included in Material Men 2: Contemporary Masters at the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum. In the March 2019 selections of Edson’s work will be featured in the exhibition Contemporary Portraiture at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

ABOUT ELEVEN TWENTY PROJECTS:
Founded in 2013, Eleven Twenty Projects is a modern and contemporary arts initiative, located on Buffalo’s Main Street adjacent to the medical campus. Eleven Twenty Projects intermixes art, history, and material culture with a diverse approach and independent vision.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

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Usui Holy Fire II Reiki I & II Training Classes.
Holy Fire II Reiki is a new form of Reiki that was introduced about three years ago by the ICRT. It

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Usui Holy Fire II Reiki I & II Training Classes.

Holy Fire II Reiki is a new form of Reiki that was introduced about three years ago by the ICRT. It is both powerful and gentle and provides purification, healing, empowerment and guidance. Holy Fire energy is noticeably more refined and comes from a higher level of consciousness.

Become a certified practitioner and begin your reiki journey. All classes are a combination of lecture, discussion, hands-on experience and fun. All classes are taught by Shawn Marie Cichowski, a ICRT registered Karuna Reiki ® Master Teacher and USUI/Holy Fire II Master. Shawn Marie Cichowski received all training by a licensed Senior ICRT teacher, including Master training with William Rand. Shawn Marie Cichowski follows the code of ethics and professional standards of practice set by the International Center for Reiki.

USUI/HOLY FIRE II REIKI I & II PRACTITIONER

Reiki is a Japanese healing art that focuses unharnessing the body’s energy through the use of “laying on of hands” to focus heat and energy on the places that need attention to promote healing. A holistic approach to wellness, reiki is excellent for stress, anxiety, healing, pain relief, and well-being. Learn how to confidently deliver effective USUI/Holy Fire reiki treatments.

Level I: Includes history of reiki, energy and chakras, hand placements, and scanning. Ideal for self treatment.

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Bundle up and get to Larkinville on Saturday, January 26th! Ice Fest is back with special programming at businesses along Seneca Street including Larkin Square, The Filling Station, Hydraulic Hearth,

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Bundle up and get to Larkinville on Saturday, January 26th! Ice Fest is back with special programming at businesses along Seneca Street including Larkin Square, The Filling Station, Hydraulic Hearth, Swan Street Diner, Buffalo Distilling Co., Flying Bison Brewing Company, Larkin Center of Commerce, Eckl’s at Larkin and Kornerstone Cafe. Larkin Square will feature a vendor market on the heated boardwalk, plus kids activities, an ice sculpture, alpacas from Thistle Creek Alpacas, performances by The Bird’s Nest Circus Arts and more. Explore the neighborhood through horse drawn carriage rides and grab a bite to eat at the participating restaurants! Stay tuned for more scheduling details! Admission to Larkin Square is FREE thanks to KeyBank & Independent Health.

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Get your tickets now for the 6th annual Buffalo Groundhog Day Celebration at Flying Bison Brewing Company! The party is presented by Hall, Ricketts, Schuller & Gurbacki, P.C. and is

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Get your tickets now for the 6th annual Buffalo Groundhog Day Celebration at Flying Bison Brewing Company! The party is presented by Hall, Ricketts, Schuller & Gurbacki, P.C. and is Buffalo’s best winter celebration. Get out of the house and enjoy the beautiful winter weather that late January offers WNY. This is Buffalo – we fear nothing, we celebrate everything. Remember, Buffalo Groundhog Day is a nonprofit organization and certified 501(c)(3), which means event proceeds benefit local animal charities. Have a good time and feel good doing it.

Tickets Here -> https://bit.ly/2V34OX1

$20 Presale $25 at the door gets you:

– Admission to Buffalo Groundhog Day Event
– Three drink tickets to be used at Flying Bison Brewing Company or Buffalo Distilling Co.
– Access to the heated Rosina Food Products, Inc. Party Tent
– Live music from five local bands
– An animal demonstration from Hawk Creek Wildlife Center Inc
– Access to the area’s best food trucks
– A winter weather prediction from Buffalo’s only weatherhog duo, Buffalo Bert and Buffalo Mack! (100% accuracy rate on predictions)
– Donation to a worthy animal organization

**Buffalo Groundhog Day Society is a 501(c)3 who’s mission is to provide for animals in need throughout the Western NY region. Throughout our history we have donated more than $10,000 to local animal charities. For more information visit BuffaloGroundhogDay.com

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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The Theatrical performance of Tony n' Tina's Wedding satires an Italian-American wedding in which the audience participates in all aspects of this fictitious event.
You will toast the Bride and Groom,

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The Theatrical performance of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding satires an Italian-American wedding in which the audience participates in all aspects of this fictitious event.

You will toast the Bride and Groom, enjoy an Italian Buffet Dinner, a piece of Wedding Cake, participate in the Bouquet and Garter toss and dance to the music of Donny Dulce and Fusion. There are many other surprises in store for you throughout this raucous evening including: The Sacred Dance Of the Waiters, An impromptu performance by Tony’s Father’s (Stripper) Girlfriend, A drunken Priest, Bickering Family members, and you never can tell when the Pregnant Bridesmaid will go into labor!

Come see why this is Buffalo longest running theatre show!!
Call 716-633-4355 For tickets or online at www.aatc.net
For Group sales Call 716-633-4355
Italian Buffet Dinner included with your ticket!

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New York Beer Project is excited to announce the 2019 return of our hottest signature event: Silent Disco!
Choose your own groove with your custom switchable headphones and your dance the

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New York Beer Project is excited to announce the 2019 return of our hottest signature event: Silent Disco!

Choose your own groove with your custom switchable headphones and your dance the night away in our exclusive Floor 2 Dance Hall & Party Bar! The drinks will be flowing, the tunes will be rockin’, and you and your buds will be having the time of your lives 🎶

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The Niagara Frontier Division of The Toy Train Operating Society will hold their Winter Train Show and Swap Meet on Sunday January 27 9 AM until 3 PM at

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The Niagara Frontier Division of The Toy Train Operating Society will hold their Winter Train Show and Swap Meet on Sunday January 27 9 AM until 3 PM at the Pvt Leonard Post 2450 Walden Ave. Cheektowaga, NY. Cost is $5 or $3 for current members of TTOS. Children under 12 are $1. There will be an operating layout and toys as well. The train doctor will be on hand to help repair your old toy trains. There is plenty of free parking and there will be door prizes and a raffle. Tables are still available for $20 each. For more info or to reserve a table please contact Jim Strom at 716-684-6131 or Dan Malkiewicz at 716-698-7054 or e-mail NFDTTOS@verizon.net

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Sunday Snowshoes at Chestnut Ridge Park. This Sunday, January 6, 2019, 10 am. Join an Erie County Park Ranger for a snowshoe hike (snowshoes are weather permitting) through Chestnut Ridge

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Sunday Snowshoes at Chestnut Ridge Park. This Sunday, January 6, 2019, 10 am. Join an Erie County Park Ranger for a snowshoe hike (snowshoes are weather permitting) through Chestnut Ridge each Sunday through the winter. Even if we can’t snowshoe, we will lead a hike through the park. Wear boots and dress appropriately. This will be a strenuous walk. Snowshoes are available to rent in the Casino. No reservations are required.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars, and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian

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In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars, and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced, and directed by Roberta Grossman, executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, and shot by Director of Photography Dyanna Taylor, Who Will Write Our History (based on the book by Samuel D. Kassow) mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon—the truth—and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.
About the Global Screening Event: Across the world, on one single day, Sunday, January 27, 2019—International Holocaust Remembrance Day—movie theaters, churches, mosques, synagogues, universities, museums, and community centers will screen WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY. Audiences everywhere will join a post-screening discussion streamed live on Facebook from the evening screening at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

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Jump on the Brew Bus Buffalo and enjoy a customized tour of the City of Buffalo's amazing and diverse collection of public art.
The diversity of our community is beautiful

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Jump on the Brew Bus Buffalo and enjoy a customized tour of the City of Buffalo’s amazing and diverse collection of public art.

The diversity of our community is beautiful and to be celebrated. Come join us for an afternoon of fun and photos, to celebrate the beauty of diversity within Buffalo through public art, on a picture-taking bus tour across every boundary of the city.

Local nonprofit organization Unite by Night is proud to partner with Brew Bus Buffalo to offer Buffalo Public Art Tours, a fun and interactive look at the City of Buffalo’s beautiful and diverse collection of public art.

All profits of your ticket purchase are donated to the nonprofit that Unite by Night has dedicated a year’s worth of volunteerism, community and professional service to. This year’s recipient is the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence, whose work including the Alternatives to Violence Project and Camp Peaceprints social-justice-oriented children’s summer day camp make Buffalo a better, more inclusive place.

YOUR TOUR: Guests will meet at our first stop, Community Beer Works to enjoy what’s on tap (1 beer included with purchase of your tour ticket). Then we will board the Buffalo Brew Bus for our informative and fun tour across the city.

Our educated guides will showcase Buffalo’s amazing artwork, providing information about each artist, their work, and the eclectic neighborhoods that each work of art resides in. Along the way, guests will be kept warm with complimentary hot chocolate and encouraged to take and share photos of what they discover on Facebook and Instagram #unitebynight #buffalopublicart.

When we are done, back at our first stop Community Beer Works, guests can head home or stay to enjoy Buffalo’s bustling brewing scene and additional drink specials just for tour attendees.

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Please join the faculty, students, parents, and alumni of Saints Peter and Paul School at our Open House on Sunday, January 27th from 1-3pm at 5480 Main Street in Williamsville.

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Please join the faculty, students, parents, and alumni of Saints Peter and Paul School at our Open House on Sunday, January 27th from 1-3pm at 5480 Main Street in Williamsville. We are enrolling for grades Pre-K 3 thru 8th grade.

As part of the school’s commitment to growth and accessibility, SSPP is offering generous scholarships and tuition incentives to new K-8 families who enroll for the 2019-2020 school year.

Additional Open Houses to be held from 9-11am on 2/12, 3/12, 4/9 and 5/29 and from 5:30-7:30pm on 5/9.

More information is available at ssppschool.com and on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter @schoolsspp.

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Celebrate the creativity happening in Western New York's thriving craft beer scene while enjoying over 50 unique beers brewed for the Craft lover! If you’re looking for a truly unique

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Celebrate the creativity happening in Western New York’s thriving craft beer scene while enjoying over 50 unique beers brewed for the Craft lover! If you’re looking for a truly unique beer “VIP experience”, the Buffalo Brewer’s Invitational is the premier event of the season! During this limited attendance 3 hour event, guests will be treated to a VIP event the entire duration of the event, rather than just the usual 1 hour VIP session.

Guests will receive a commemorative 2019 Brewer’s Invitational glass, a gift card for a purchase of beer-centric snacks, and access to 50 creative Craft ales and lagers. Limited Tickets available, so snag one today before they sell out!

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Following Fit is the first book from Buffalo personal trainer and author, Kristen Perillo. The book is a memoir about how Kristen Perillo’s quest to understand fitness and nutrition turned

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Following Fit is the first book from Buffalo personal trainer and author, Kristen Perillo. The book is a memoir about how Kristen Perillo’s quest to understand fitness and nutrition turned into a series of lessons about her relationship with her body, her relationship with food, and her identity—as a teacher, as a trainer, and as a woman. Based on her blog, Following Fit is the story of a person who came to fitness late—in her thirties, after years of feeling unathletic—and found a passion she didn’t know she had. Her passion for fitness and nutrition takes her through a career change, a descent into binge eating, and an identity shift, but it also leads her back to her self, to a sense of wholeness, and to an understanding of health and wellness that goes beyond physical fitness.

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All are invited to Westminster’s Festival of Hymns on Sunday, January 27 at 4 PM in Sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209. Led by

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All are invited to Westminster’s Festival of Hymns on Sunday, January 27 at 4 PM in Sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209. Led by guest organist, Dr. Patrick Scott (Atlanta, GA), the service will present great hymns of faith with choirs, brass, percussion, and organ.

One of the major ways Christians have shared their faith throughout history has been through the singing of hymns. The choirs of Westminster and the Buffalo Brass will lead the congregation through favorite hymns of the liturgical year, beginning with Advent, and ending with Christ the King. Time honored hymns to be feature in this service include Holy, Holy, Holy; All Creatures of Our God and King; Hail Thee, Festival Day; and Abide with Me, amongst many others.

“Hymns are a unique art form designed to be sung as a community,” says Garrett Martin, Choirmaster and Organist at Westminster Presbyterian Church. “Hymnody is an important part of the life and work of the Church: when we sing hymns, we sing our faith. We are literally putting words in people’s mouths, so they must be beautiful, good, and true. At this great Festival of Hymns, we will sing many important hymns of our faith over the last centuries.”

Guest organist, Dr. Patrick Scott, will lead the service alongside Westminster’s Organist and Director of Music, Garrett Martin. Scott serves as Organist and Associate Choirmaster at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, GA, and has been on staff at the Cathedral since September 2014. Dr. Scott was recognized as one of the top 20 leaders and organists under the age of 30 by The Diapason magazine. He won both first prize and audience prize in the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation, Boston, 2014. An active recitalist and accompanist, Dr. Scott has appeared in concert and with choirs throughout the United States, as well as in France, Scotland, England, and Ireland.

About Westminster Presbyterian Church
For over 160 years, Westminster Buffalo has been committed to working for a better city and world. We are guided in our life by the study and reflection of sacred texts, practice of hospitality that welcomes the stranger, service that assists those in need and a witness to social justice. Comprising a uniquely forward-thinking Presbyterian church and a premier early childhood program, Westminster Buffalo presents myriad opportunities for learning, service, and multi-faith collaboration for anyone regardless of race, socioeconomic status, sexuality, gender identity citizenship status, age, or religious affiliation.

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Sunday, January 27th – Mungion w/ Ponder

-Doors: 7:00pm, show: 8:00pm
-Tickets: $7 ADV/$10 DOS
-Ages: 18

About Mungion:
Since their inception in Spring of 2015, Mungion (pronounced mung-yin) is quickly becoming known for their undeniably explosive and charismatic live shows. The Chicago-based four-piece is rooted in their ambitious compositions and improvisational ability. Drawing inspiration from a wide array of musical styles, they create a raucous, yet jubilant sound all of their own.

Known for their whimsical songs and goofy stage antics, Mungion’s joyous presence is a natural extension of its members, making for live performances that are infectiously lighthearted and deeply sincere. However, underlying the band’s quirky nature is a tremendous amount of virtuosity across all of its members. Combined, this talent and playfulness emboldens the group to be fearless in the studio and on stage. Mungion is guaranteed to have you smiling ear to ear and leaving wanting more.

ponder has made a name for themselves playing venues and festivals around western New York and its surrounding areas, as well as sharing the stage with such touring bands as New Politics, LITZ, Jimkata, After Funk, The Werks, BIG Something, and Kung Fu.

With plans to release new music, as well as some other surprises, 2018 has been a formative and exciting year for the group. The band is currently working in their DIY studio to garner material for upcoming spring tours.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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Intro to Brewing runs Mondays starting Jan. 28 through May 13. The first in the 5-course program, it provides a foundation for students interested in pursuing the program. Topics include:

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Intro to Brewing runs Mondays starting Jan. 28 through May 13. The first in the 5-course program, it provides a foundation for students interested in pursuing the program. Topics include: historical aspects of the industries of brewing and distilling along with ingredients, equipment and process requirements involved in brewing and distilling.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

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NEW YORKER MAGAZINE
DISCUSSION GROUP
An informal gathering
of people interested in
discussing the articles,
poetry, fiction, reviews and
cartoons found weekly in the
New Yorker.
Facilitators: Sheila Shapiro &
Arlene Burrows
January 8 - March 26
Tuesdays 10:30am-12:30pm
class#20083
Full/Social Member

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NEW YORKER MAGAZINE
DISCUSSION GROUP
An informal gathering
of people interested in
discussing the articles,
poetry, fiction, reviews and
cartoons found weekly in the
New Yorker.
Facilitators: Sheila Shapiro &
Arlene Burrows
January 8 – March 26
Tuesdays 10:30am-12:30pm
class#20083
Full/Social Member Gym/CP
$22 $30

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The internationally recognized pianist and composer, Walter Kemp, expertly builds ensembles able to dominate in an array of venues. An established composer and arranger, Kemp’s compositions have garnered widespread acclaim

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The internationally recognized pianist and composer, Walter Kemp, expertly builds ensembles able to dominate in an array of venues. An established composer and arranger, Kemp’s compositions have garnered widespread acclaim for their originality, trueness to form, and accessibility. Added to the equation are an ingenious bassist and a drummer who grew up with two spoon “sticks” in his hands, and the stage is set for a most memorable debut and jaw-dropping live performances

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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Are you ready to take the Next Step in your Intuitive & Mediumship Development?
In this 8 bi-weekly series you will learn:
We meet the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month.
1/15,

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Are you ready to take the Next Step in your Intuitive & Mediumship Development?
In this 8 bi-weekly series you will learn:
We meet the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month.
1/15, 2/5, 2/19, 3/5, 3/19, 4/2, 4/16, 5/7
– How to Connect with your Spirit guides & understand their messages in detail
– Connect with loved ones who have crossed over & get clear evidence & clear & accurate messages from them
– ethics in mediumship
– how to facilitate a reading from start to finish
– how to work with spirit in a way that allows you to receive healing & highest & best Messages for your client
– how to facilitate a platform or gallery style reading
– Spirit often uses our own experiences to give messages to us. They also often use symbols. You will learn how to recognize both & accurately interpret them
– All this & so much more.

Facilitate: Angie Hewett-Abt. Angie is a graduate of Fellowships of the Spirit in Lily Dale, she has been a practicing medium for over 25 years & is the owner of Santosha Holistic.

$20 a class or pay for all 8 and get one free.

Register at www.santoshaholisticcenter.com or call or text 716-930-5011

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Has "Fifty Shade of Grey" or the Indie movie "Kinky" inspired an interest in BDSM? Whether this is your first kink class or you’ve been practicing BDSM for decades this

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Has “Fifty Shade of Grey” or the Indie movie “Kinky” inspired an interest in BDSM? Whether this is your first kink class or you’ve been practicing BDSM for decades this class is for you. Part lecture, part interaction (only if you choose), learn and practice new verbal and communication skills useful for the modern BDSM space and daily life!

Attending this Class:
* Dress Code – Vanilla/what you would wear to go shopping. No Nudity.
* Safe Space – We will be discussing sensitive topics so respect is required. Please be advised that if you are disrespectful to other participants, the organizers, or the venue you may be asked to leave and will forfeit your class fee.

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or 11:30am to 12:30pm on Wednesdays for only $1 more than the price of admission. Advance registration is required, call 655-5131 ext. 14. Theme of the week: Visiting the Doctor

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or

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Classroom style fun for your little one that introduces preschoolers to group settings with letter learning, story time, crafts and a different lesson each week. 9:30am to 10:30am or 11:30am to 12:30pm on Wednesdays for only $1 more than the price of admission. Advance registration is required, call 655-5131 ext. 14. Theme of the week: Visiting the Doctor

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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Bake your cakes, pies and tortes and eat them too! Take your baking to the next level with our master pastry chef, creating the perfect flaky or crispy shells for

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Bake your cakes, pies and tortes and eat them too! Take your baking to the next level with our master pastry chef, creating the perfect flaky or crispy shells for pies and other creations. You will be taught various batter mixing techniques and applying these to create your own delicious pies, cakes and tortes. Best of all, you get to take home what you make.

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Housing Rights and a Responsibilities is a workshop for everyone! This workshop teaches tenants, owners and landlords housing rights and responsibilities. Learn basic suggestions for improvements to have quality affordable

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Housing Rights and a Responsibilities is a workshop for everyone! This workshop teaches tenants, owners and landlords housing rights and responsibilities. Learn basic suggestions for improvements to have quality affordable housing. We will address 3 plus grants such as lead safety grants, first time home buyers, energy efficiency, weatherization, etc.

Funktional Flow: Hailing from Buffalo, NY, Funktional Flow is a multi-genre quintet heavily rooted in rock and reggae, with a funk foundation. Over the past six years, the band has released three albums and played hundreds of shows throughout the Northeast and beyond. With the release of the newest album “Time Will Tell” on March 5th 2016, Flow is poised to take it to the next level and branch out nationally. Flow is heavily influenced by Sublime, Umphreys McGee, Moe, and Blind Melon but maintains a fresh, high energy sound that results in a diverse catalog of music.

Since the bands establishment in 2010, Funktional Flow has played notable music festivals such as Catskill Chill, The Great Blue Heron, A Bears Picnic, Buffalove Music Festival and Night Lights Music Festival. They also host their own festival, “Flow Fest”, at Woodlawn Beach located on the shores of Lake Erie, just outside of Buffalo, NY. Funktional Flow has shared the stage with many notable acts including; Warren Haynes, Railroad Earth, Rusted Root, New Riders of the Purple Sage and members of Little Feat. The Flow has succeeded in making a name for themselves throughout the North East and beyond; continuously earning recognition from musical publications. Recently the band was voted “Best Original Alternative Band” in Western New York. Also featured in Relix magazine’s “On the Rise” section and was a previous winner of the coveted Artvoice “Best of Buffalo” award. Dubbed a multi-genre monster, Funktional Flow is best experienced in its natural state, a live performance.

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display,

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Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

The Gallery is open for viewing: Monday-Thursdays 10:30-4:30 & Sundays 12-3.

Please call to make sure the secretary unlocks the door.716 882-0391

1243 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209
Impact no longer has a physical location/gallery in the Tri-Main. We are still a 501c3 but continuing exhibiting different galleries
. Please post, for questions please call or email me 830-7099
Thanks Diane Menchetti

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You're invited to join the fun with The ACME Mystery Co. Buffalo for their next interactive mystery dinner theatre event: Deadly Inheritance!
The Matriarch of a wealthy family is gravely

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You’re invited to join the fun with The ACME Mystery Co. Buffalo for their next interactive mystery dinner theatre event: Deadly Inheritance!

The Matriarch of a wealthy family is gravely ill and wishing to settle her estate. First, her long lost younger son must be declared officially dead. That’s where the fun begins! Join in as you and the other intensely greedy relatives gather to memorialize “Little Dickie” and battle for position to receive the lion’s share of the family’s $13 billion fortune. Be careful at this gathering, however, the next memorial could be for you.

Guests will enjoy a delicious dinner, the show, and have a chance to solve a very real mystery. Some willing guests even get to play characters in the show!! Everyone has the opportunity to win prizes for being the best and worst crime-solvers! Reservations are highly encouraged so call (716) 810-9489 to make yours today. Tickets are $45 per person, which includes the show, 3-course dinner, tax, and gratuity. Cash bar.